Insights
Few political memoirs feel as lively, vain, intelligent and dangerous as the account left by Jean François Paul de Gondi, better known as the Cardinal de Retz.…
Alain-René Lesage occupies a distinctive place in eighteenth-century French literature. His fiction follows clever, vulnerable and frequently opportunistic…
The Encyclopédie was one of the boldest publishing ventures of the eighteenth century: a vast French reference work that gathered knowledge about science,…
Denis Diderot wrote philosophy as a living encounter rather than a sealed system. His ideas emerge through conversations, arguments, interruptions, theatrical…
Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, known as Crébillon fils, wrote about desire, seduction and social performance in eighteenth-century France. His fiction is…
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The baroque poetry of Théophile de Viau is full of movement, contradiction, and sensory force. His poems shift quickly from courtly elegance to bodily…
Pierre Corneille’s Le Cid remains one of the most compelling works in French theatre because it places private feeling under extraordinary public pressure.…
Pierre de Ronsard is often remembered as the great lyric poet of the French Renaissance, a writer of love poems, odes and celebrations of nature. Yet his…
Louise Labé writes with an intensity that still feels immediate across the centuries. Her poems move through desire, jealousy, delight, fear and uncertainty,…